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Commission Gives New Impetus to Resolve Banana Dispute

EU-US Dispute on Banana | 5 July 2000 | European Commission

WTO Report Notes Rights Violations

Seattle Post-Intelligencer / By KERY MURAKAMI / SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Mayor Paul Schell had said he wanted both protesters and delegates to be heard at the World Trade Organization conference last fall.

U.S. Importers Lobby for Relief

The Washington Post / By John Burgess / Washington Post Staff Writer So will it be goose liver, truffles, hair clippers or tomato powder that feels the wrath of U.S. trade diplomacy in the next six months? Or fancy fizzy water, or chewing gum that has no cocoa? Or motorcycles with engines under 500 cubic centimeters?

A Few Advances Toward Applying Anti-Poverty Plans

By Gustavo Capdevila / IPS GENEVA, Jun 30 (IPS) - A week of negotiations by the special session of the United Nations general assembly on the question of fighting poverty led to a few significant results, like the idea of studying new formulas for financing development or for freezing the foreign debt at current levels.

Report on US Federal Anti-Activist Intelligence Network

Posted by PeaceNet on Tuesday June 20, @09:48AM

Sachs on Globalization: A new map of the world

Today's world is divided not by ideology but by technology. This demands, Jeffrey Sachs argues here, bold new thinking on development The Economist June 24th 2000

OECD Ministers ""Determined"" to Launch New Trade Round

Agence France Presse / Sue Kendall PARIS, June 27 (AFP) - Ministers of 29 major industrial countries said here Tuesday they are "determined" to work for the launch "as soon as possible" of a new round of global trade talks that fully include the world's poorest nations.

Indigenous Peoples Critical of The Human Genome Project

Nixon, NV, 4:00 pm PST. Scientists representing the publicly funded Human Genome Project, and the private venture, Celera Corporation, announced today they have completed a rough map of the human genome. The human genome consists of two sets of 23 chromosomes, with each set containing a total of 3 billion chemical units.

Nations Try to Develop Poverty Plan

Associated Press / Naomi Koppel GENEVA (AP) -- Rich and poor nations, replowing the same territory they did at last year's, riot-torn Seattle trade conference, tried Tuesday to hammer out a United Nations plan to tackle global poverty.

Trading away the public interest: General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)

The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) is holding hearings across the country this week into the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The hearings are in Calgary June 26, Regina the 27th, Winnipeg the 28 and Toronto the 29th. Notice of the hearings was sent out June 7. The column below addresses some of the issues involved.